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August 1, 2008
On Thin-Skinned SanTana Historians
Moxley fends off idiot Republicans; Nick Schou battles conspiracy loons; Vickie Chang gets the hipsters riled up. My petty, non-pedo-apologist fights? Local amateur historians. My post last week about SanTana's missing segregationist history in a recent Images of America book about the county seat ... More >>
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September 3, 2008
The Curious Case of the Bowers Museum KKK Tree
Outside the Bowers Museum (the original part, not the multimillion-dollar addition) stands a beautiful, still growing crape myrtle tree. It blooms every spring, adding a bit of genteel, colorful charm to the already-purty facility. You've seen this tree if you ever drive or walk past the Bowers on M ... More >>
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September 20, 2008
First OC Book Signing for Orange County: A Personal History Mucho Success
With apologies to Orange County Register sports genius Randy Youngman, notes, quotes and observations from my Sept. 18 book signing at the Yost Theater for my new book, Orange County: A Personal History: *About 500 people showed up to hear my lecture! About 500! I add the qualifier because the Yost ... More >>
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January 23, 2009
Where Santa Ana's Segregationists Can Eat Mexican Food in Peace
Cute, little, quaint Floral Park in SanTana--the place that holds segregated Halloweens and where a mansion gate states "Tara"--has its own Mexican restaurant: El Pico de Gallo Grill. It's located right at the entrance of the neighborhood--or rather, where the northbound entrance would be except tha ... More >>
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October 30, 2008
[Scariest People 2008] Haunted Alamo
Cute, little, quaint Floral Park in SanTana--the place that holds segregated Halloweens and where a mansion gate states "Tara"--has its own Mexican restaurant: El Pico de Gallo Grill. It's located right at the entrance of the neighborhood--or rather, where the northbound entrance would be except tha ... More >>
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May 1, 2008
Letters From OC Weekly Readers
Cute, little, quaint Floral Park in SanTana--the place that holds segregated Halloweens and where a mansion gate states "Tara"--has its own Mexican restaurant: El Pico de Gallo Grill. It's located right at the entrance of the neighborhood--or rather, where the northbound entrance would be except tha ... More >>
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May 15, 2009
In Defense of Klanaheim
The Los Angeles Times story published this Monday telling the world Anaheim is now majority-Latino has drawn nothing but derision from the Latino Anaheimers I know (read this musical takedown by Weekly contributor and KPFK-FM 90.7 Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman). "Oh no, they didn't put in a ... More >>
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September 14, 2009
How Did the Doll Hut End Up Hosting a White-Power Show?
Henry W. Head: Godfather of OC, OC racists. Has nothing to do with post other than we love posting his photo to screw with our Sunkist memories...The Doll Hut in Anaheim, of course, needs no introduction (but if you need one, read this and this) and is one of the last music venues in Orange Count ... More >>
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September 30, 2009
Time for Boston To Give Us Their Crown as the Kings of Bigotry
OC founding father Henry W. Head: Could take on a Bostonian any dayLet the baseball pundits obsess over whether your Angels will finally beat the Boston Red Sox in the playoffs next week--I care about stripping from Beantown what's now rightfully ours: the title of most-racist 'burb in America.� ... More >>
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December 8, 2009
Most Racist City in Orange County--Is it Fullerton??? Our Top Five
Henry W. Head, founding father of OC, longtime Santa Ana doctor...I was speaking with a local GOP operative recently when he said something that shocked me. The topic was my recent cover story on the Candy-Ass Gang, the trio of pendejos and one pendeja who prosecutors say drove into Huntington Be ... More >>
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July 24, 2010
For Whom Exactly Was Santa Ana "Great"? And When?
Flickr user Ben DayhoeDowntown SanTana, yesterday and today...Another person has entered the SanTana mayoral race this year--Charles Hart, a man I've never heard of, but who thinks he can take down Mayor-for-Vida Don Papi Pulido and challenger Alfredo Amezcua. I guess he'll be the candidate for r ... More >>
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September 2, 2010
Killer Quince
Happy Quinceañera to us! A look back at 15 years of telling the other side (that is, the real side) of OC's story
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September 13, 2010
SJC Americans: OC's Latest Hate Group!
Another set of OCers makes Henry W. Head proud...I don't really pay much attention to San Juan Capistrano because that's more Spencer's terrain, but one facet of the town that previously drew my interest was some group calling themselves the SJC Americans. Clockwork Coker previously wrote a ... More >>
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September 16, 2010
Five Reasons Why Orange County Should Thank Mexico Today
Today, as Orange County Register readers know too well, is the official marking of Mexico's bicentennial. SanTana will become one massive fiesta this weekend, although the elites marked their own celebration last evening at the Bowers Museum. With all the arribas in the air, what better time to d ... More >>
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February 15, 2011
Announcing the 'Which OC Pioneers Were KKK Members?' Series!
Last week, Luis F. Fernandez--the historian who rediscovered the long-forgotten desegregation story of Alex Bernal--went to the Anaheim Heritage Room and got a copy of a list that had long eluded him: the membership roll of the Orange County chapter of the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s, when the ... More >>
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March 8, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Dr. Roy S. Horton and Marshall Keeler, Santa Ana Unified Trustees
This kid'll be our mascot until we get an official logo for this series...Are you like me and laugh when historical conservationists give names to buildings based on people who once lived there or commissioned said structure? Probably not. Anyhoo, the Dr. Horton Building stands on Third Street in ... More >>
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March 14, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Henry W. Head, OC Founding Father
If it weren't for Google, this series wouldn't exist. And if it weren't for bad historians, there'd be no reason for my write-ups. But there is, and there are--thus, ars gratia artis, or some high-falutin' Latin phrase to justify its existence. Actually, blame the biographers of Henry W. Head for ... More >>
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April 4, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Lucien Proud, La Habra Mayor/ School Trustee
Recently on my Facebook page, one of my amigas--a proud White woman--chimed on my status and repeated the tired truism that Anaheim was THE hotbed of white supremacy in Orange County. Sigh...while the Klan did control the city during the 1920s and gets all the attention in the history books, the ... More >>
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April 11, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Hoyt Corbit, Yorba Linda Pioneer, Fan of Richard Nixon
When Richard Nixon became president in 1968, the national media rushed to the Podunk city of Yorba Linda, the Dickster's birthplace and a town that had just incorporated a year earlier and was still largely citrus groves and rolling hills instead of the exclusive estates and gated communities tha ... More >>
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April 18, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: William Starbuck, Fullerton School Trustee, Druggist
With the eyes of America turned to Orange County yet again for our hilarious haters, let's take a moment to focus again on the city that inspired the Obama-as-ape email lunacy: Fullerton. Man, I'm starting to believe that GOP operative who told me a couple of years ago that Fullerton is the most ... More >>
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April 25, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: John F. Pieper, Tustin Feed Store Owner, Councilmember
It's always a blast to read the polite histories of Orange County and compare them to the true story. Take, for instance, their treatment of Tustin pioneer and former councilmember John F. Pieper, for whom the city's Pieper Lane (in the ritzy Tustin Ranch area) is named.He ran Pieper's Feed Store ... More >>
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May 2, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Charles McClure, Brea's First Police Chief
Anaheim's Klan was more obsessed with temperance than minorities; Fullerton's Klukkers were mostly obsessed with booting out Mexicans from the city limits. But for a bit of the old Klan, the guys who hated blacks and wanted nothing to do with them, you'd have to travel up to Brea, the county's on ... More >>
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May 9, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Clyde Fairbairn, Longtime Olive Resident/Nice Guy
The secrets people keep. A couple of years ago, a couple of amateur historians wrote up reminisces of Clyde Fairbairn, for whom Fairbairn Street in Orange is named. Fairbairn was a longtime resident of Olive, a community now mostly gone, gobbled up by Orange in the past half-century, but once cen ... More >>
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May 16, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Ferris F. Kelly, San Juan Capistrano Postmaster
The Orange County men who joined the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s were almost all residents of North and Central County, specifically the cities of SanTana, Anaheim, Fullerton, La Habra, and Brea. The numerical breakdown isn't really surprising: Orange County didn't have that many cities then, and o ... More >>
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May 23, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Garland C. Ross, Santa Ana Dentist, Batted Against Walter Johnson
There is a name on the membership roster of the Orange County chapter of the Ku Klux Klan compiled by the District Attorney's office in the 1920s that matches that of a major league ballplayer. It ain't Arky Vaughn, or even on the same level of major league importance as the Hall of Famer from Fu ... More >>
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May 31, 2011
Profiles In OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: James W. Newell, Fullerton-Area Miner/Mason
That old-time racism that once marked Fullerton is rearing its ugly head right now over at the Friends for Fullerton's Future blog, in the comments section in a simple post about the future of the Chicano murals near the Lemon Street overpass. Of course! As we've noted before on this blog, Fuller ... More >>
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June 6, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Elmer E. Heidt, OC's First Scout Executive for Orange County Boy Scouts Council
Today, the Boy Scouts is one of the most multicultural organizations in Orange County--indeed, if you asked me to describe the prototypical OC Boy Scout, I'd say he was a Vietnamese kid from Little Saigon. But the Boy Scouts wasn't always so egalitarian--although the national organization maintai ... More >>
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June 13, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Samuel F. Hilgenfeld, Buena Park Minister, Founder of Anaheim's Hilgenfeld Mortuary
Look for any hints of Anaheim's Klu Klux Klan past in the city, and they'll be next-to-impossible to find. After voters booted the Klucker-majority council and police force from power in 1925, city fathers did their darndest to eradicate any vestiges of the Invisible Empire, so you'll rarely see ... More >>
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June 20, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Newton E. Wray, Santa Ana Rancher, Failed Council Candidate
Most of what passes for the early, non-Mission or -Anaheim history of Orange County has come out of Samuel Armour's 1921 History of Orange County, California: with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its growth and development from the ... More >>
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June 27, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: John A. Leuzinger, Brea Mayor, Founder of Brea Electric
It is absolutely amazing, if not downright frightening, to see the effects Google has on modern-day reporting. Last year, the Orange County Register ran a story on Brea Electric, one of the oldest businesses in the city. Reporter Lou Ponsi lifted the history of the company wholesale from its webs ... More >>
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July 5, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Jesse L. Hunter, San Juan Capistrano Innkeeper, Owner of Mexican Restaurant
Even in 1920s Orange County, Know Nothings knew that if they wanted to be successful, they had to do business with Mexicans. You could segregate against them, kick their asses, exploit them--but you needed their money, too, to make sure you could make a living.That's exactly what happened with Je ... More >>
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July 11, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: William E. Fanning, Brea Schools Pioneer, Namesake of Fanning Elementary
The legacy of school segregation in Orange County really needs no introduction 'round these parts. But what still needs to get examined is the political allegiances of the architects of such policies--beyond the mere racism that existed in Orange County before the 1950s, and toward the Coast to C ... More >>
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July 18, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Rudolph Kroener, Co-Owner of Former Gas Station that's Now Orange's Filling Station
The Filling Station in Orange is an okay-enough place once you get over their retro design, one facilitated by the fact that it used to be a auto service station (hence, it's name). Doesn't matter what I think--it's always slammed, especially since they now offer dinner. But just in case yo ... More >>
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July 25, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: William French, Fullerton's First Deputy Police Officer
Hey, since the Fullerton Police Department is in the news because half-a-dozen of them beat to death a homeless man who suffered from schizophrenia, why not remind folks this week about the department's friendly past? Yes, Mitchie: Klan members were part of Fullerton's finest, and it started from ... More >>
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August 8, 2011
Profiles in OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Rollin Marsden and Roy Davis, Fullerton Councilmembers
My apologies to my loyal white-supremacist audience for not doing one of these last week--I'm busy putting the final touches on...something, so had to skip a week. But fear not, skins: this week's a two-fer, and we return to Fullerton in honor of the civic malfeasance that plagues the city, espec ... More >>
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September 19, 2011
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Harry E. Becker, Mayor of Brea
Here's a dirty little secret about the Ku Klux Klan in Orange County during the 1920s: for one part of the Invisible Empire's reach, it was all about class warfare.We're talking specifically about the city of Brea, which wasn't the genteel suburb we know today but rather a rough oil town whose re ... More >>
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September 26, 2011
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: George Annin, Fullerton Police Officer, Councilmember
Given that the Fullerton Police Department's murderous ways are getting mucho coverage this week due to the Kelly Thomas killing, let's turn our attention anew to the department's old days, when it featured many Kluckers among its ranks, Kluckers who were hell-bent on turning Fullerton into a ref ... More >>
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October 10, 2011
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: William F. Espolt, Jr., La Habra Banker/Citrus Grower
William F. Espolt, Jr. was quite the busy bee in his day. He was the chair of the La Habra Midway Oil Company, which sought out black gold up in them thar hills, and a stockholder in two banks. His father was one of the founders of the La Habra Citrus Assocation, and Billy also followed in daddy' ... More >>
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October 17, 2011
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Morris W. Martenet, Jr., Anaheim Councilmember, Owner of Martenet Hardware
Last year, Martenet Hardware in Anaheim closed after a century of serving the city. We went there as far back as I could remember for our construction needs, never completely forsaking it for Home Depot or even when a Lowe's opened up nearby. By then, the Martenet family no longer owned it, havin ... More >>
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October 24, 2011
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Evrit S. Boice, La Habra's First Mayor
I was in La Habra over the weekend for...something...when I realized La Habra hasn't gotten enough love in this column. And why shouldn't it? La Habra, per capita, was probably the most Klan of all OC cities, a place where orange growers actually hired overseers to make sure their Mexicans didn't ... More >>
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November 7, 2011
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Forrest Hurst and Ben Blanchard, Brea Councilmembers
My apologies for missing the entry in this series last week, but I needed to do another post for that day--and why do two posts in one day unless it's timely? This Klan plan, on the other hand, is timeless--and besides, whenever I do miss a week, I come back with a two-fer, which leads us to the ... More >>
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November 14, 2011
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Walter S. Gregg, County Statistician/Aid Commissioner
As a county evolves, there are some positions that eventually become obsolete, renamed, or absorbed by another position. Take county statistician. That would be today here...um, for the whole county? Like, for everything? Doesn't exist anymore in OC. How about Aid Commissioner? God, what kind of ... More >>
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November 28, 2011
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: George W. Cullen, Brea Schools Clerk
It's no surprise that many Klan members in Orange County were part of the educational system. From superintendents to school board members to trustees, those Kluckers wanted to do everything possible to ensure that White children weren't contaminated by their colored ilk--and that Mexis were educ ... More >>
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December 5, 2011
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Alvin L. Hitchcock, Orange County Chief Deputy Clerk
In the early 1920s, the Orange County Board of Supervisors passed a resolution forbidding any county employees from being a member of the Ku Klux Klan. The supes had a serious problem on their hands, given that the sheriff at the time, Sam Jernigan, was a Klucker.The directive, of course, did lit ... More >>
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December 12, 2011
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Charles C. Kinsler, Brea Fire Chief/Clerk/School Board Member/Pioneer
Charles C. Kinsler was a lot of things as one of Brea's pioneers. He was a recording judge in the rough-and-tumble oil town, served on the first school board, and also did a stint as the town's clerk-recorder. He was a Mason and the city's first fire chief; he also organized one of the first unio ... More >>
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December 19, 2011
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Frederick Bastady, Buena Park Citrus Rancher/School Board Member
Out in the Central Valley town of Lindsay, Bastady Ranches continues the family's century-long tradition of growing oranges. They've been there since 1955, since Emanuel Bastady moved the family business from Buena Park, a business he inherited from his uncle Frederick, a child of Swiss immigrant ... More >>
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January 9, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Arthur E. Koepsel, Chair of the OC Republican Party Central Committee
I'm not going to write TOO much about Arthur Koepsel here because...well, you'll read more this Thursday in our paper. But, of course, whenever it comes to the pioneers of Orange County, first we must consult their self-published bios as included in Samuel Armor's collection. So, let's hear it, A ... More >>
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January 23, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Harry E. Inskeep, Fullerton Justice of the Peace
Good news, all five readers of you: I've finally been able to move out all my Orange County history books from the catacombs into my new office, meaning I now have full access to all sorts of directories and local history books that I can match up with the OC Klan's membership roster from the 192 ... More >>
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January 30, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: William A. Culp, Brea Schools Board of Trustees President
Brea is infamous in the annals of Orange County for its unofficial sundown town law for much of its existence, and for just being generally nasty toward minorities, but here's an interesting fact: Brea never had segregated schools for Mexicans. Reason? There was no need for it--no Mexicans in tow ... More >>
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February 6, 2012
OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Arnold F. Peek, Santa Ana Butcher
When the Brave New Urbanists talk about the good old days of SanTana, the days before Mexicans destroyed the Golden City, they inevitably point to people like Arnold F. Peek. Like the Brave New Urbanists, he wasn't originally from the area, hailing instead from Kansas. Like the Brave New Urbanist ... More >>
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